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  • What Mountaineering and Teams have in Common

    In business, it’s trust. Aki Kärkkäinen’s piece “From Rope Teams to Remote Teams” asks the real question: would you trust your team enough to share a rope?

    I really liked this paragraph: “I’m reminded of the pandemic when social distancing was introduced—an unfortunate term, because what was meant was actually physical distancing. Most companies obsess over physical proximity when the real challenge is connection distance.”

    And further on, Aki also draws the line to AI tooling. Give it a read!

    (Well okay, and I liked the parallels of teamwork and hiking ;-))

    Oh and I just noticed that Aki is on Mastodon as well: @akikoo@mastodon.social!

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  • Have We Left Web Radio Behind?

    Since my decision to , I have consciously moved away from Spotify. Instead, I chose to use Navidrome as my personal music server combined with Symfonium as the client. This setup allowed me to rediscover my own MP3 collection — a treasure of gems I hadn’t listened to in years! And I can tell: I really enjoyed the feeling of reconnecting with my personal music library.

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  • Goodbye Facebook

    Finally! My Facebook account is deleted.

    My Facebook-Exit is a long story. I never really used it a lot. I used it mostly to have the possibility to contact some people. Especially from university when they went to other countries or so.

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  • It’s all about solving problems!

    I am running this blog since 2009. The majority of the time it is dormant, and I mainly use it to document a solution that was hard to figure out and when I wished I had found it earlier. And in case that I have to solve the issue again, I know that I wrote it down here and don’t have to rely on some other website being online in a year or two when I come back to the same problem again.

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  • A new Layout / Theme

    I just switched the theme of the blog to the “Twenty Twenty-Five” theme. I guess I even need to get comfortable with the new look myself.

    A while ago, I noticed that my previously used theme wasn’t customizable in a way that I had the Fediverse reactions in the place I’d like to have it. And after having seen some more blogs in the last weeks (especially via powRSS) – I decided to make the layout even more simplistic.

    Let’s see ow I like it or if I’d like to customize it in some way …

  • Bookwyrm — One Month In

    A month ago, I wrote that I would like to try Bookwyrm (#Bookwyrm: a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books. More on https://joinbookwyrm.com). Now, one month and three books later, it might be a good time to write about my first impressions.

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  • The Future is Federated – but not necessarily (fully) Self Hosted

    It’s not a secret that I am quite a fan of the and getting more independent of a few Big Tech Companies and getting control back.

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  • Welcome Wireguard (It’s really always DNS)

    Today I commuted to work and of course wanted to try my new setup that I wrote about before. And – it didn’t work 🙁 It couldn’t resolve the host name. DNS – again!

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  • Migration, Containers and … It’s always DNS, really

    As I wrote in my previous post, I have a new member in the home server environment: The Lenovo ThinkCenter Mini Computer! Right after getting Ubuntu up and running on it, I began the process of easing the workload on my . PiHole had been flagging high CPU load a couple of times already, especially when Jellyfin was streaming media and performing its usual tasks.

    The target was clear: keep PiHole on the Pi and move the heavier services to the Lenovo. But I also didn’t simply want to migrate the services. I also wanted to improve the setup …

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  • How to Use a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q as a Powerful Home Server

    As an IT enthusiast, I’ve long been (and still are!) a fan of the mini computers. My main Pi already runs multiple services like , and – which often pushes it near its limits. Well, recently I found myself wanting to add even more services to my local network. Unfortunately, my NAS can’t host Docker containers, so expanding compute power became necessary.

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